Turhan Çömez responds to Hakan Fidan's 'KAAN' statement with a Sülün Osman reference: 'He would have tipped his hat'
İYİ Party MP Turhan Çömez has reacted to Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan's statement, "We are waiting for the engines of the KAAN fighter jet."
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Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan's statement, "We are waiting for the engines of the KAAN fighter jet; the licenses are currently stalled in the US Congress," has caused a major stir. Fidan's words revealed that the engines for the KAAN fighter jet, which has been described as domestic and national, will actually be procured from abroad.
SHARP RESPONSE FROM ÇÖMEZ TO FİDAN
İYİ Party Balıkesir MP Turhan Çömez reacted to Hakan Fidan on social media. Stating that the engines for the KAAN would be procured from outside and that the test flight was conducted with a "fake engine," Çömez said, "If Sülün Osman were alive, he would have tipped his hat to what you are doing!" Çömez also asked how the 48 KAAN jets sold to Indonesia would be delivered without engines.
"EVEN THE ENGINE IS COMING FROM ABROAD"
In his statement, Çömez continued his criticism by saying, "You marketed the KAAN as completely domestic and national, but even the engine of the plane is coming from abroad. You even performed the test flight with a fake engine!" Regarding the planes to be sold to Indonesia, Çömez asked, "48 planes without engines... How are you going to give them to Indonesia now? Won't they ask for compensation?"
WHO IS SÜLÜN OSMAN?
Sülün Osman (real name Osman Ziya Sülün, 1923 – 1984) is one of Turkey's most famous con artists. He is known among the public as the "King of Con Artists" due to the extraordinary and cleverly staged "fraud" incidents he committed throughout his life.
Osman Sülün gave a lecture on "Living by the Sweat of One's Brow" while in prison on April 20, 1962. He filed a lawsuit against Aziz Nesin on the grounds that a phrase in his book offended his moral sentiments. Sülün Osman was caught by chance while trying to sell the Galata Bridge.
Gaining fame for his "work" in the 1950s and 60s, "Sülün Osman" became a "legend" by 'selling' or 'renting' public property such as trams, the Galata Tower, clocks in city squares, and city line ferries to citizens. Sülün Osman's "fraud" methods were also the subject of many Turkish films.